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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Join us in this upcoming WaveLab Google Hangout, in which Justin Perkins is going to show us his workflows. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and get them answer in real time.
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WaveLab Workflow w/ Justin Perkins - Transcription / Notes
17:35 Workspace -> Layout -> ‘JP Start’ PRESET
21:40 Preferences -> Global -> Misc -> Display
26:30 Configure Outputs
28:40 Custom Shortcuts
29:00 Shortcuts -> Audio Montage -> Insert Audio Files: Customized to [CMD + I]
30:00 Plugins -> Organize -> Customize
30:30 Disable VST2 Plugins (uses VST 3 only)
32:00 Folders
32:30 Audio File Preferences
34:30 Style: Black Theme
35:00 Audio Montage Preferences
37:17 Global -> Display -> Theme: Black
37:30 Hide Transport for add’l screen real estate
38:30 Right-click ‘STOP’ button -> Move Cursor Back to Start Position
39:15 Hide File Group Tabs
39:45 Command Bar: Top Left
40:30 Metering shared by Audio Editor and Audio Montage
41:00 Loudness Meter PRESET (JP Start) - Changes LU setting to FS (Full-Scale)
43:00 Timecode set to ‘CD Track Start’ Marker - Right-Click to change
43:45 PhaseScope - Custom Shortcut [CTRL + P]
44:45 BitDepth Meter - Custom Shortcut [CTRL + B]
45:00 Audio Editor - View Tab
47:20 Process -> Pan Normalization
49:00 Analyze - Review incoming file information (Peak, Loudness, DC Offset, etc.)
54:00 File Management
56:00 Audio Montage
58:00 Ribbon Tab
59:00 Import -> Audio File to Montage
1:01:40 Save Montage [CMD + S]
1:03:00 Trim up the files
1:05:00 Fade Options
1:06:00 Question: Upsample to 96K ?
1:07:00 Overlapping files with Staggered layout
1:08:20 [CMD + Page Up/Down] to Toggle between Clips, if no Markers in place
1:09:40 Add CD Markers w/ CD Wizard
1:13:20 CD Markers created, based on Clip Names
1:14:30 Create a buffer between the Track Marker and Audio Downbeat
1:17:15 Markers Tab
1:18:00 Manually moving Splice Markers for overlapping Clips
1:20:00 Some people move the End Marker to add 1/2 sec after audio as a buffer
1:23:25 Set first CD Track Start Marker at 0:00:000
1:26:20 Ripple -> Global
1:28:00 Repairing Clicks/Pops in External Editor
1:31:00 Insert Tab -> Replace Audio File [CMD + R]
1:36:40 Metadata and Marker Names
1:41:00 Track Information
1:44:35 Load Metadata Preset
1:49:20 MAKING SOUNDS!
1:54:00 Master Section Settings
1:55:30 Hide Master Section for add’l screen real estate
1:57:30 Question: Lanes in WaveLab?
1:58:30 Inspector (previously known as the FX Tab
2:00:00 Clip Effects (per Song)
2:03:00 Loudness Meta Normalizer - Great for ITB Workflow
2:05:30 Press ‘Apply’
2:06:50 Clips Pre-Gain and Post-Gain
2:07:50 Clip Gain
2:08:30 Inspector
2:10:40 Plug-In Chains (Clips)
2:11:30 Save Plug-In Chain
2:13:00 Using Clip Automation to drive into Output Plug-In Chain
2:18:00 Clip Effects Window displays target Clip Name
2:19:00 Splice a Clip to apply Clip Effects, such as AM Radio EQ on the Intro
2:21:50 Loudness Meter Settings
2:23:00 Files Tab
2:23:30 Reference Tracks
2:25:00 Copy Clips to a Reference Track
2:28:00 Listen Button
2:28:30 Raw Output
2:30:30 Rendering
2:33:00 Ready to Render
2:35:15 Selected Clip
2:36:15 Check CD Track Marker Placement
2:37:00 Render Whole Montage
2:40:30 Render Location
2:44:45 Untitled Montage Rendered
2:46:30 Load Dither Plug-In
2:47:45 Using Bit Depth Meter
2:49:30 Question regarding Stream Deck
2:50:10 Copy the name of Montage [ CTRL + N]
2:56:00 Examine Metadata using Finder and ‘Meta’ app
2:58:00 Creating MP3s
2:59:00 * Can easily create 16-Bit WAV files
3:00:50 * Sometimes renders ’320 mp3 Full Ref’ of Full Album Project
3:02:00 Once Project approved, will render and send 2496 WAVs
3:03:00 Revisions (V2…)
3:05:30 Client sends new Mix files
3:06:30 Vinyl Masters
3:10:15 Render Tab -> Presets -> ‘Vinyl SIDE A’
3:12:30 Render Tab -> Presets -> ‘Vinyl SIDE B’ [Y]
3:18:00 Cassette Masters
3:22:00 Visit the Facebook Users Group:
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Put this in the description and we should be able to scroll through the video with chapters.
Thanks!
Amazing Video! Thanks a lot for all these details
Incredibly helpful to a very old folkie like me, who loves music and music technology who is also desperately trying to get his head around the tech side of it all. Thank you so much for your time, help and undoubted guidance, it's very much appreciated.
THANK YOU!! Finally decided to get WL10 and your video is vastly shortening the learning curve. Salute!!
Thank you Justin! This is Priceless information in my world, thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge like this.
My music production experience started out on the full retail versions of Cubase 5 & Wavelab 5 back in 2010 ,
I've reference checked the best of best mastering engineers working in the Wavelab platform. You are the ONLY Mastering Engineer I have seen go this in-depth in a workflow session in any version of Wavelab. You have fully demystified the Mastering in Mastering. ✌🏾
Thanks JP for this great workflow tips!..definitely I've learned a lot of the Wavelab features that i wasn't aware of their existance before. Worth spending my 3hrs time on this..
This is the best WaveLab video on UA-cam. Can’t wait for the Analog workflow vid! Thanks Justin for sharing!!!
Thanks for this, really helped me with a one-off mastering project. Clear and logical overview in enough detail to get what I needed done and without which I would have been having to piece together the same information from a dozen different videos.
this is extremely helpful, I am in the process of deciding which mastering daw to purchase. very insightful. thanks for sharing
this is Gold. Thank you for doing this. Kudos to WaveLab and Justin. While in today's music trend most of the new kids only think that Mastering are just 'make it louder', more bass, more wider.. This is the right workflow, specially for doing Album or EP releases in real life music industry.
Me, as a certified trainer, Application specialist and demo artist for advanced video editing and VFX Software i also find that today's information and knowledge are only based on what they could find on the internet.
Keep doing this kind of videos, Cheers!
Hi Aldy, I'm glad you found it helpful. Mastering is indeed more than just the stereo bus processing and even if "CDs are dead", we still need software that can properly assemble EPs and albums for any and all formats. WaveLab is perfect for this.
Incredibly useful intro to wavelab. Thank you so much for posting. Now onto your wavelab 11 update video.
Thank you very much. That was very useful.👍Hope there is more to come.
Im buying wavelab because of this video. Thank You
excellent - will have to re-watch to get all the useful content
Rooster said it best, "priceless." Couldn't express the value of this session. Thank you.
Really great! Thanks Justin!
So many useful tips and tricks, many, many thanks!
thx a lot for this great overview
This has been super helpful. Thanks so much. I used to be one of those Gumbas who didn't understand the montage.
So glad I found this, the best and most practical Wavelab tutorial I've seen. Thank you Justin! Looking forward to more.
I'm glad you found it helpful! Someday I promise to make some shorter and more bite sized videos but for now, I only had time to do this live walkthrough with no editing to at least get some helpful information out there ASAP.
Thanks Justin, a really informative walkthrough your workflow. Still uncovering features and ideas here, even after using it for 10 years or so.
That was the idea! I just wanted to do a basic overview that could be helpful to new users, curious potential users, and maybe even some existing users.
This video is just excellent!! Super informative and educational!!! Thank you so much!!
Hey Justin! Thanks again for this. I had to bail out after two hours yesterday, but there are so many great workflow improvements in there that I'm definitely going to re-watch parts of it over the next few days to optimise my own setup. Great work!
No problem. I know it was a long one but there are so many great things to cover with WaveLab. I'll try to do shorter more focused ones moving forward but felt it was overdue for doing a basic overview.
Excellent masterclass!!!
Thanks a lot Justin! Great video.
Well Done!
Thank you very much for sharing so much. I am not a Wavelab user but I may be soon
Priceless content.
As a Wavelab newcomer, this has been so useful to get started. Great advice and really easy to follow. Just finished my first CD with this stream running in a browser next to me. Looking to check out the next session as well next week! Many thanks Justin!
Awesome! Thanks!
Thanks, that was great!
Incredibly helpful and generous video. Thank you.
That was awesome presentation. Many thanks!
Thanks for watching! I feel like I barely scratched the surface but maybe I can do another one in the coming weeks.
Excellent video. Thank you for doing this.
Thank You!!!this is very very helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the flow-verview Justin. Much appreciated!
No problem. I know that a properly scripted and edited course would be better and is sorely needed, but I lack the extra time to do it properly right now. I hope that it at least gives potential new users a starting point.
Very, very useful. Thank you.
Thanks a lot Justin for sharing your experience. Looking forward to watching the second video. It would be quite interesting to know how you deal with external gear.
This is amazing, thank you!
Great tutorial! Thank you
Thanks!. Very nice video, pleas do one with analog gear soon😀.
Thank you for walking us through your workflow! Amazing content!! I'd love to know how you integrate your analog chain and your complete process for captures. Thanks again!
Thank you!!!
Thanks
Thank you..very helpful. A lot to take in but answered lots of questions for me as well!
Peter Miller
Hi Justin, Thanks for your amazing videos. I was wondering if I am right that there is no way of downsampling the output? This really has to happen in an external app? I am a longtime Pro Tools user, so I thought that on exporting it would be easy to choose a sample rate, but it seems you have to export, then convert, then import and export again? Am i right? Thanks for your time!
Hello. How can I open the Master Rig window for the first time? There only slot1, slot2, slot3.... window appears.. (using Wave Lab Pro 60 days trial version)
Great job Justin. I've been using Wavelab since version 2 (maybe even 1) and I've enjoyed watching it develop into a very powerful mastering platform. I've just found this Hangout video and it's been very informative; there's so much to learn in this program.
The interesting part for me was the metadata explanation. I did not know that you could transfer the CD Text into the metadata field; at least that's what I'm understanding from this video...except I can't seem to do it. My questions are: 1) does the metadata 'pick up' the CD Text data (I use ID3v2) by just filling in the preferred fields in the CD Text boxes. Or 2, does the metadata have to be previously embedded in the individual wav files first? If so, I not sure what you were showing us here. Sorry for the confusion on my part. Maybe you can explain this a little more for me. Thanks.
Hi, sorry for the delay. If you load my metadata preset in your montage, the CD-Text that you enter will be embedded as metadata in any mp3 or WAV files rendered from that montage. There doesn't need to be any pre-existing metadata. The preset transposes the CD-Text into ID3 v1 and v2 metadata, and you can expand on that more if you need.
You can also make it so your default montage template already has the metadata preset pre-loaded which is what I do.
If you're on Facebook, feel free to join us here in the WaveLab Users Group for faster and better responses:
facebook.com/groups/WaveLab
I'm trying to understand better how other mix and start mastering process, terms like passing the audio to analog gear... what do you mean ? I'm used to do everything digital domain. Can someone provide some course or so that talks about that ?
Listen and learn
Are you planning to update guidance for mastering on WaveLab 10. I watched your vid which had a useful tool called "Smart Bypass", but can't find it on the newer version. Using the Montage window for loading Original and current mastered files for A-B comparison would be useful to me :)
Smart Bypass is only available in the Global Master Section which does present a challenge if you are only using Clip/Track and Montage Output FX. Hopefully Smart Bypass can be added to work within the montage eventually.
Justin, thank you very much for the great video! I have a question about the rendering of the whole montage with the individual clips and their plugins, markers etc... You named the resulting file to be "Wavelabs_ITB_v1" but once rendered and the new montage is created each songs "Clips" have the name of their markers instead of "Wavelabs_ITB_v1". I like the fact that the all the markers and spacings are there but it is confusion that the name of each clip are different since they are all a piece of "Wavelabs_ITB_v1". Is there a way to show the real rendered name instead? When you have a bunch of montages with multiple rendered tracks it can be confusing. How do you know what are the real wav file of the tracks? Thank you in advance. -Fred K.
Hi Fred, sorry for the slow reply. I don't always get to check these comments, but we do have a WaveLab Users Group on Facebook if you're on Facebook. The real rendered file name is in the "Files" tab of the Audio Montage.
I think due to my file management system, I'm never confused about what the file name is vs. the track names. I'd be happy to answer in more detail over in the WaveLab Users Group on Facebook.
@@mysteryroommastering-justi6737 not everyone uses Facebook, I have not used it in 3yrs. you should create a users forum at your studio's website , plus it would bring morr traffic to your website. ✌🏾
Any chance Steinberg could do a table of contents like with the Cubase hangout?
How to play twice as fast three times as fast?
Around 1:00:00 when you are inserting audio files, does that window where you can separate the tracks only for Wavelab Pro users? Every time I try to insert audio track, they all end up on one track and that menu that you show never pops up...
I believe the default shortcut is SHIFT+CMD+I but I have mine shortened to CMD+I
This box only appears if you insert more than one file at a time which is common for when I'm beginning an EP or album mastering project. Sorry for the delayed response as it's hard to catch all the comments here. If you're on Facebook, feel free to join the WaveLab Users Group over there and questions can be answered more timely.
I am just checking free trial before deciding if I will buy Wavelab Pro or not. However, I can't copy clips t the reference track. I don't have this option when I am right-clicking on the track. Any advice?
Hi, this feature was added in one of the more recent maintenance updates. I would be sure that you are surely using version 10.0.40. If you are still stuck, please join us in the WaveLab Users Group on Facebook for more help. If you don't use Facebook, Steinberg has an official forum for WaveLab as well.
@@Jperkinski Hi Justin. Thank you. I was using version 10.0.20. Just updated it to 10.0.40 and I can see this feature now :)
Justin, how did you get it so the Numeric prefix of your rendered mp3 files begin with 01? Also, is this displayed in iTunes like this, or is the name based on the Metadata? Having the numeric prefix maintains the correct song order, but at the same time, you don't want these prefixes displayed in any player...only on hard drives. I can't figure out how you did this. Thanks!
Yes, that's a tricky thing because iTunes won't read the metadata in WAV files but as far as mp3 goes, I name the files 01 Song Title, 02 Song Title but in the actual metadata, there are no numbers in the song title field so it looks clean. iTunes and other media players get the track order from the song number/song total metadata field which WaveLab can automatically populate.
It's all in the video, and in my presets and preferences linked above.
I think there's too much enphasis on WaveLab as a mastering editor. Yes, it's a mastering tool and probably the best mastering tool that money can buy. BUUUT! I find it to be the ultimate tool for so many other things. In my case, I value it above anything else for its unsurpassed power as an audio editor, sound design compositor and creative production tool. That's not even a joke: you can't find anything as powerful and snappy as WaveLab and by saying that, I try to stay as objective as I can.
Hi Justin, I'm making my way through the video (which is great!). Should the montage template files work in 9.5 as I get an error message saying they aren't valid?
Thanks Justin.
It was really helpful to see the delivery workflow. That has been one of the biggest question for me. I’ve been Nuendo user since 2000. But Wavelb has not seemed ready for my workflow (Analog processing etc.) until this latest version.
You rely heavily on Stream Deck. Since you presets are tightly integrated with the actions , would you feel comfortable sharing your Stream deck template? It would be a help to see how you integrated the two. Seems like a really great time saver.
Thanks again for you video, Much appreciated. Michael
Hi Michael, it's hard to put in writing everything I do with the Stream Deck and why, but here's a link to my WaveLab 10 Stream Deck profile, and a screen shot of what it looks like:
www.dropbox.com/sh/6e6zw83o2zl1b70/AACb89uEZunEFKZgg41M_wKPa?dl=0
Some things are used more than others and it's tied to some custom shortcuts I've made.
It's hard to put into words how I use the Stream Deck with WaveLab and why, but here is a link to my WaveLab Stream Deck profile, and a screen shot of how it's laid out:
www.dropbox.com/sh/6e6zw83o2zl1b70/AACb89uEZunEFKZgg41M_wKPa?dl=0
Hey Justin! Thanks for the fantastic video! I have a question regarding limiting after sample rate conversion. I have seen you recommend that final limiting comes after sample rate conversion seeing as that process alters the peak structure of the content. How do you typically handle this? In the video it appears that this wasn’t taken into account and it’s a workflow issue that I’m very interested in getting your perspective on.
Hi Jeremy, my typical workflow is setting my main limiter's output ceiling to -1dBFS in my source 96k (or other high sample rate) montage. I follow my main limiter with a good true peak limiter (Tokyo Dawn Limiter 6GE) using JUST the true peak mode, not the entire plugin. I like Limiter 6GE because you can use the "Delta" option to hear what true peaks it's limiting. I find this to be a little more transparent than using just one limiter that is doing the heavy lifting AND the true peak limiting all in one.
Anyway, I lock in all my processing (other than dither) at 96k (or other high sample rate) with the -1dBFS true peak ceiling. Then when I sample rate convert the locked in processed version down to 44.1k and recreate the montage using Custom Montage Duplicate, the true peaks are usually still around -0.9 or -0.8, which leaves a little headroom for the lossy encoding of the steaming services.
I am a little on the conservative side as some people push closer to 0dBFS or just don't even care about this at all but I think it makes for a cleaner end result. Occasionally when I have a loudness obsessed client, I might inch closer to 0dBFS peaks but I try not to do that.
Hello
! Great video tutorial on WaveLab 10, many thanks for that. I now have a trial version of this program. and will start to learn it.
One important question; How do I install the files Justin gave us?
Unfortunately, I have not found a way so I can certainly put them in the right places.
This applies to JP Metadata Start, WL10_Render-Presets and WaveLab Pro 10.0
Many thanks! Peter
Hi Peter, welcome to WaveLab. The trick is to expose your WaveLab Preferences folder and then overwrite the folders and files with my preferences, or you can simply pick and choose the files you want.
It's a bit of a manual process and it's slightly different if you are on Mac or PC.
Here is a slightly old but still relevant document I made for my mastering class that explains it in more detail:
www.dropbox.com/sh/zt2hnrp16a951s1/AAD4g4P0t5_V7kPy-UOoFHe8a?dl=0
And here is a link to my full preferences folder which you can choose to use 100%, or just choose a few presets that you'd like to copy to your system.
www.dropbox.com/s/xws73pm7hel4ewa/WaveLab%20Pro%2010.0.zip?dl=0
Confused about your dithering process. Looks like you went from 24-96 montage to 24-441 (using RX to downsample). But then you have a 24bit dither on after you imported the new downsampled file---which is confusing since you only need to dither when you are reducing bit depth---not for downsampling. Maybe your original file was 64bit?
Hi, the RX SRC'd file is floating point so dithering needs to happen when rending 24-bit or 16-bit WAV, or DDP. I always keep the initial render and the external SRC's floating point since there is no reason to paint yourself in a corner. This way you can render any bit-depth and sample rate combo.
@@Jperkinski Thx for responding. You actually clarified my question later in your video...by stating that the 2496 in your naming scheme actually represented the fact that you were intending to dither as part of rending the montage (not that it was a 24bit file). 👍🏽.
@@audiokemestry Good to know. I can see how that'd be confusing. I guess I tend to name the montage based on the destination bit-depth/sample rate which as you now know, requires running the dither live on rendering. Dither is the only plugin I really run live when rendering track by track. The rest is already baked in for the main initial render.
I know a few mastering engineers (even those using Sequoia and Pyramix) that do the main render in one pass to help mitigate plugin issues, especially with overlapping tracks.
What META data app did you use? and is it available for PC ?
Hi, META the app is only on Mac but there are a few PC ones I've heard of. In general though, you should be able to handle all your metadata needs in WaveLab Pro, I just use META for double checking things and also demonstrating what WaveLab can embed.
@@Jperkinski Aaahh. Ok.
Thank you very much.
Hi Justin! What copy paste app do you use? Thanks!
I use an app called Copy 'Em Paste to program global shortcuts for pasting text on my Mac. It's great for stuff you use all the time such as naming sessions/folders/etc.
apprywhere.com/copy-em-paste.html
Are wavelab 10 and wavelab pro the same?
WaveLab 10 is the latest version, and there is a Pro Version, and a more limited Elements version.